Tundu Lissu na ufafanuzi wa mgomo wa TLS

[Nsololi]

Dear members,

As we speak, Ugandan judges and magistrates, over 400 of them, are striking over poor conditions.

The Uganda Law Society is in full support of the striking Judiciary. No one is condemning the Ugandan judiciary and lawyers for being activists.

The Kenyan Bar and Bench are amongst the most respected legal communities in Africa.

They're also the most militant defenders of constitutionalism and human rights in their country.

We all respect their courage and applaud their achievements.

No one ever pauses to reflect on how Kenyan lawyers have attained that position of respect and power.

Here in Tanzania lawyers have been murdered in cold. TLS and we members kept silent.

An advocate has been missing since March 2015 and he may have been abducted and murdered by his captors. We've pretended to see or hear no evil.

The law offices of the President of the Zanzibar Law Society were bombed and damaged last year. No statement whatever came from any one of us Tanzanian lawyers.

Now they're bombing the law offices of some of our prominent law firms. And lawyers are fearful of taking principled position and hiding behind all sorts of excuses.

I was elected with a promise to lead a TLS that doesn't hide behind excuses in the debate on the affairs of our country.

I promised a TLS that doesn't tolerate or condone abuses of its members' rights.

I promised that 'unlike the biblical Cain, we must be our brother's and our sister's keeper.'

The time has come for us to be the keeper of our brothers and sisters at IMMMA Advocates.

We must show the world that we're capable of keeping our word to our members.

I intend to keep my word to you members. Let's rally around IMMMA Advocates. We'll come out the better for it.

 

[radika]

lugha sasa kushiriki tunapenda.

au hamtaki wakina profesa maji marefu na kibajaji wasiambulie kitu nini?

 

[Dragoon]

Dear members,

As we speak, Ugandan judges and magistrates, over 400 of them, are striking over poor conditions.

The Uganda Law Society is in full support of the striking Judiciary. No one is condemning the Ugandan judiciary and lawyers for being activists.

The Kenyan Bar and Bench are amongst the most respected legal communities in Africa.

They're also the most militant defenders of constitutionalism and human rights in their country.

We all respect their courage and applaud their achievements.

No one ever pauses to reflect on how Kenyan lawyers have attained that position of respect and power.

Here in Tanzania lawyers have been murdered in cold. TLS and we members kept silent.

An advocate has been missing since March 2015 and he may have been abducted and murdered by his captors. We've pretended to see or hear no evil.

The law offices of the President of the Zanzibar Law Society were bombed and damaged last year. No statement whatever came from any one of us Tanzanian lawyers.

Now they're bombing the law offices of some of our prominent law firms. And lawyers are fearful of taking principled position and hiding behind all sorts of excuses.

I was elected with a promise to lead a TLS that doesn't hide behind excuses in the debate on the affairs of our country.

I promised a TLS that doesn't tolerate or condone abuses of its members' rights.

I promised that 'unlike the biblical Cain, we must be our brother's and our sister's keeper.'

The time has come for us to be the keeper of our brothers and sisters at IMMMA Advocates.

We must show the world that we're capable of keeping our word to our members.

I intend to keep my word to you members. Let's rally around IMMMA Advocates. We'll come out the better for it.

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No one is advocating murder of advocates or otherwise, again every lawyer is cursing the IMMMA incident. there's no inflexibility on the ongoing solidarity against the incident encountered by the fellow law firm IMMMA Advocates. What is transpiring is techniques used to tackle the matter. It has been handled and treated more politically than Professionally.

First, TLS President grossly evaded one of the founding principle of natural justice, that is audi alterarn partern. Mr. President had apparently concluded on who is suspected, and actually convicted them.

Second, TLS President usurped the powers of investigating authorities like the Police Force and others. It seems the President knows who prepared and executed the fateful incident, and he knows what kind of weaponry were employed in execution.

Third, TLS President made a quick response to the incident by hurrying to the media with a purpose of delivering his message to the public, not to the members of TLS.

Fourth, the boycott decision is ultra vires. it goes beyond the limits of the powers conferred on the governing council of TLS.

Thanks for the Colleagues from the bar who were Persistent on standing against this ill-founded and unprecedented political stricture which disrupts the ethics of our noble profession.